The present-day debates concerning the legitimacy of the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood offer us a favorable occasion of studying the masculine-feminine distinction as manifested in the biblical revelation. This distinction presents a remarkable consistency which, intuitively perceived until now, has served as a reference - and has constituted a norm - in the tradition of the Church. This consistency must today be exposed so that we can explore the wealth of anthropological and theological sense contained in this matter in the biblical tradition.
